10 Facts About The Orange Order!

1) Famous Orangemen have included Dr Thomas Barnardo, who joined the Order in Dublin, William Massey, who was Prime Minister of New Zealand, Harry Ferguson, inventor of the Ferguson Tractor, and Earl Alexander, the Second World War general.

2) Commemorations of the Battle of the Boyne predate the Orange Order. The Order was formed in 1795 and its first parade was held in 1796, but there is a record of a Twelfth parade in County Armagh in 1791, suggesting that the tradition of parades goes back well beyond the Order’s formation.

3) The Orange Order is an all-Ireland body, with lodges in Cavan, Monaghan, Leitrim, Dublin and Donegal. The only Twelfth procession in the Republic nowadays is at Rossnowlagh in County Donegal. There are almost 1200 lodges in Ireland, most of them in Northern Ireland

Cluan Place & “interface” areas, Under siege!

The reality of life in Cluan Place for the small unionist population.

This account, unapologetically, sets out to put the record straight. It is essential that the unionist case – one which is not always heard – be told. The people of Cluan Place, Madrid Street, Thistle Court and elsewhere along the Short Strand interface deserve no less.

Cluan Place is an isolated Unionist area backing on to the republican Short Strand. It is a street of 25 houses. Each home has been attacked at one time or another while some have been attacked on many occasions.

Thistle Court and Madrid Street, until very recently were completely exposed to republican Short Strand and suffered drastically as a consequence. More than 40 out of 79 houses sit derelict in the Thistle Court/Madrid Street area as a result of I.R.A. attacks. After pleas to Government, gates eventually were erected across Madrid Street beside Thistle Court, stopping republican incursions but the missiles continue.

Rocco – Was abused

Roccos video editing by: StrongholdUlster
Intro & outro by: UlsterHistory

I’m a Proud Friend of Israel. Are you?

Since September 2000, Israel and its citizens have been going through dark times. Homicide bombers blowing themselves up (and by that taking lives of innocent civilians with them) have become an overwhelming, frightening, everyday sight in the streets of Israel. Israel is being compelled to fight a fierce war against the terror infrastructure of the Palestinians, and now has been forced to open a second front in Lebanon, against the terrorist group Hezbollah.

Israel and its citizens need to know their friends and supporters are standing by them at these harsh times!

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